Whatever the outcome of the current problems between agricultural Netherlands and the government in The Hague may be, one thing is certain: farmers have to become more sustainable. In our series ´Netherlands, hydrogen land´, we wrote about the role that…
When he was 18, Elias Bohun took a train from Vienna to Vietnam. For the sake of the environment, he didn’t want to fly but still didn’t want to give up traveling. He thought it would be very tedious, but…
In the 3D bio-printing laboratory at the Medical University of Innsbruck, researchers are working on the production of human tissue that can be built using 3D bio-printers. The replication of human tissue makes it possible to simulate and study diseases.…
“Where can I find a bin?” This simple question gave Nicolas Lorenzo Zeoli the impetus to develop an app that could locate and show all trash cans while walking around Pisa – the city he lives in. Since the idea…
A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up €723.8 billion in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona.…
When Hannah Brown attended a hackathon in Berlin 2.5 years ago, she could’ve never imagined she would now run a company with eleven employees with her former hackathon teammates. “Dominik [Dominik Feiden, co-founder, red.] pitched an idea about vertical farming…
Offshore wind farms are on the rise. In the next ten years, another 10 gigawatts of capacity will be built in the North Sea, relatively close to the coast. But what happens after 2030? Will we continue to build? Will…
In Germany this summer, you can travel on regional public transport for 9 euros per month. Innovation Origins is seizing this opportunity to visit a number of future-proof projects. In this edition, we travel to Halle an der Saale. From…
I have seldom been so angry as I was at the reports of misconduct during the lustrum parties of the Amsterdam ASC/AVSV student society. This goes so much further than a bunch of snotty-nosed frat boys behaving badly at a…
The RepTrak Company investigates the reputation of companies in over sixty countries. In the Netherlands there are four companies from the Brainport region in the top six. In this series we ask Philips (1), ASML (2) and VDL (6) where…